Elie Wiesel: A Survivor's Tale of Auschwitz

Auschwitz is the most notorious concentration camp for causing the most grief and destruction. Elie Wiesel was just 15 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz. He lived a very devout life and his parents owned a grocery store, he lived in a virtual fairy tale. He was surrounded by family and happiness… life was finally taking a turn for the better. Protected by his naivety and ignorance, he had yet to know the cruelty of life and the uncertainty of his faith. Like a lamb led to the slaughter Elie Wiesel went through the terrors of the Holocaust and has survived to tell the story of his experience. He is impacting people all over the world through his books, achievements, and unrelenting faith. His first feat was to face his revulsion of the Holocaust and go to the days he dreaded the most. He had been persuaded by his friend François Mauriac to write after he had vowed to never speak about his past. But if not for François Mauriac Elie Wiesel would have never written his first book Night. It has been translated into 30 languages and teaches a grim lesson of having everything inint the

In 1985, Elie Wiesel received the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement from Ronald Reagan. The President had been planning to visit where the members of the SS (which stands for Protection Squadron in German) were buried. Instead Elie Wiesel had tried to prevent Ronald Reagan from visiting their burial place. He said that his place was with the victims of the SS. (nytimes.com) This showed that he obviously not forgotten the who had been responsible for the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the same year he established the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. He used his reward to establish the Elie Wiesel Foundation for